Re: [OT] Acting USSS director gets into shouting match with Congressman during hearing

On Dec 5, 2024 at 1:21:23 PM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 12/5/24 12:01 PM, Rhino wrote:
 

 The acting director of the US Secret Service got into a rather heated
 shouting match during a Congressional hearing today with Rep. Pat Fallon
 (R-TX):
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukZ2yKHDjM4 [9 minutes]
 
 Fallon's questions about 9-11 really lit Rowe's fuse! I am now curious
 about what the relevance of 9-11 was to the Butler assassination attempt
 but I suppose I'll never know given the fact that he'd exhausted his
 time and didn't have the chance to establish the relevance.

 
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-assassination-attempt-hearing-devolves-screaming-match
 
I defer to BTR as to whether the Congressman has a point here, though I
suspect he might and the USSS guy got "mad" to deflect away from the
Congressman's point.

The business about 9-11 at the end was a total dishonest sandbag by the
congressman. Rowe wasn't at the 9-11 event in a protective working capacity.
He was there specifically as the representative of the USSS. Both Trump and
Biden had fully-staffed working details that day and Rowe was not part of
them. He was there with the official FedGov delegation to give their respects
for the members of their agencies who died that day.

So Fallon was literally lying about him and what he was doing there. But Rowe
shouldn't have blown up like he did, either. It wasn't a good look for either
of them.